{this hair isn’t golden…!}
“Oh please tell me I am dreaming??” I told myself as I took a closer look in the mirror. Nope not dreaming. I grabbed the little offender and yanked it out. Examined it. Then wait for it…. “mom, Mom, MOM!!!! I have a silver hair, oh no, oh no, but I am ONLY 22!!!!!” Yep that was me freaking out as I ran to tell my mom this new woe. My poor mom, I am always coming to her with everything and she just keeps comforting me. She is a saint.
Today at the doctors office as I was looking out the window at the blue sky I had one of those crystal clear moments. Azure colored sky filled the frame of the window as I waited. Within minutes the calm sky was dotted with puffy white clouds passing by. Our lives our like this. One moment they are clear and the next they are covered in sun obscuring clouds. In a moment things can change. As J. R. R. Tolkien wrote “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” At any second I might be gone. My one gray hair showed me again that this life is passing quickly. What will we do with the time we have been given? Let us not waste it.
I went through the -exact- same experience recently when I discovered more than one white hair! Life really is a vapor, isn’t it? We watch the steam rise from a cup of tea, but our life vanishes as quickly. This was really thought provoking and profound. Thanks for writing!